Real Estate
The Best Places To Find Pocket Money Real Estate
The term pocket money real estate is a nice way of saying properties for around US$50,000. Admittedly, it’s a bit...
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The Best Countries To Own A Second Home
Owning a second home overseas comes with a lot of benefits. But what are the best countries to buy in?...
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Top 3 Buy-To-Flip Markets For Real Estate Overseas
Buying to flip is a common real estate investment strategy in the United States that doesn’t make sense in most...
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Top 3 Markets For Real Estate Overseas With Local Leverage
Leverage is a key tool in every U.S. property investor’s kit. As late-night TV real estate investment gurus with courses...
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4 Lessons We Learned Renovating Rental Property Overseas
In 2012, Lief and I bought an apartment in Medellin, Colombia. It was nearly 400 square meters in an architecturally...
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The Best 4 Property Investment Markets In 2020
If I were just starting out as an investor today, with little capital and an eye to converting that capital...
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Top Reasons To Invest In Real Estate Overseas
"But haven't we done this already? Haven't we already bought an old stone house surrounded by mud? Isn't that what...
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Find Out How To Buy Real Estate Overseas For Cash Flow
Owning a property overseas can mean profit... and I'd say it always means fun. It can mean living a superior...
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How To Sell Property Overseas
We talk a lot about the benefits of buying property overseas and why it makes sense to buy real estate...
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Questions You Must Ask Before Buying A Home Overseas
Buying real estate overseas is fundamentally about diversification. This is true whether you buy for investment or for retirement and...
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Cost Of Your Ideal Property In The U.S Vs Overseas
U.S. second-home markets are seeing exploding interest. It's understandable. Seems like a good time to have a second home somewhere...
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7 Of The Best Beach Towns In Mexico
We rank Mexico as joint-1st in our list of the best places to live and retire overseas. Mexico has some...
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Florida Vs Brazil: Comparing 2 Beachfront Property Options
We’re going to kick off today by putting two beach properties head to head. I’m not going to tell you...
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Investing In Property Overseas How To Find The Balance
Resident global real estate investing expert Lief Simon—also, coincidentally, my husband—and I have been shopping the globe for real estate...
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The Best Way To Shop For–And Ultimately Find–Property Overseas
Google is generally recognized today as the answer to every question, but there are exceptions to that Internet Age fundamental...
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How To Rent Or Buy Real Estate In Unregulated Markets
You want to be sober when considering property purchase options in a foreign land. Certainly, you want your wits about...
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Things To Know Before Buying Property Overseas
We're reviewing the fundamentals of how to buy real estate overseas safely and with confidence... in an effort to arm...
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How To Shop For Real Estate In A Country With No MLS
We've been focused this week on current opportunities to buy real estate overseas. That's because the world right now is...
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Mediterranean Real Estate For Less Than US$50K In Northern Cyprus
White-sand beaches... warm water... year-round sunshine... and one of the healthiest diets in the world... For sun and sand lovers,...
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Stake Your Claim: Global Real Estate Is On Sale, Right Now
We've all been through the wringer these last few months. And the tough times are not over yet. But the...
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Identifying Overseas Property Investments During A Travel Ban
Traveling to make a real estate purchase in another country is complicated if not impossible right now. COVID-19 restrictions mean...
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How To Buy Rental Property And Select A Property Manager
When it comes time to flip the switch to retirement, Lief and I hope to have organized our lives so...
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Move To America’s Most Popular Expat Destination In 2 Weeks
More Americans and Canadians have chosen to live or retire on Mexico's two long and beautiful coastlines than they have...
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A Safety Talk: Why Diversifying Is More Important Than Ever
In Argentina, crisis isn’t the exceptional state of affairs. It’s the usual. Each generation of Argentines grows up watching its...
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Diversify With Affordable Off-Grid Real Estate In Belize
My beat is global property investing. However, it’s not always only about making money. Owning property in another country is...
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The Perfect Storm For Property Buyers In Medellín, Colombia
Here are three things that should grab your attention about Medellín, Colombia, the market I have identified as the most...
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The Best Low-Risk Countries To Invest In Real Estate
Investing in real estate overseas is a great way to protect your savings. Having all of your money tied up...
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Why I Believe Mexico Is The Best Place To Retire Overseas
You can make a complex project out of moving to a foreign country. For some people, that's half the fun....
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13 Reasons Why I Decided To Buy A Property In Mexico
Moving overseas can be extremely simple. In fact, I made my last move abroad with only a pickup truck and...
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Top Eco-Friendly Investments To Help You Diversify
This spring, my family has planted more vegetables in our garden than ever before. We don’t expect to be able...
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How And Where COVID-19 Is Creating Real Estate Opportunity
The global shutdown in response to the coronavirus pandemic is going to have big effects on real estate markets worldwide....
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Restoring A Georgian House In Waterford, Ireland
While I waited, I wandered from room to room. It was the house I'd had in mind since the day...
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Countries Where Real Estate Will Be On Sale After Coronavirus
We are deep into the lockdown now and thoughts are turning to what the world will be like when this...
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6 Things To Consider When Buying A Second Home Overseas
Years ago, I knew a lady named Janet who bought a small piece of land on the southwestern coast of...
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If you purchase a piece of real estate in another country, should you have the ownership documents issued in your...
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The 3 Real Estate Investment Lessons I Learned The Hard Way
One big loss can wipe out a lot of gains. After more than two-and-a-half decades of property investing experience across...
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Overseas Property Adventures From Ireland To Paris
"I've told the buyer from Dublin that the other buyer, the gentleman from Cork, is considering by how much he'd...
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Real Estate In Panama With Guaranteed Return On Investment
"Can an evergreen tree die?" my son asked as I ran alongside his bike. Under Irish lockdown laws, we're free...
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A Global Property Online Summit You Can’t Afford To Miss
As Lief and I sat down at our dining room table this weekend to finalize the program for next month's Global...
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6 Reasons Why Off-Grid Belize Is The Perfect Overseas Haven
“Breaking bread together” is an age-old idiom. Literally, it means sharing a meal with another person or group. The spirit...
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5 Countries Where Real Estate Is Still Incredibly Cheap
Getting onto the property ladder has always been one of the safest and best ways of securing long-term wealth. Buying...
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Exclusive Discount On Cartagena Pre-Construction Houses
Over the past two years, we've been highlighting Colombia as a place where U.S.-dollar-holders have increased buying power. Now that...
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9 Isolated Islands Where You Can Escape From Modern Life
In 1989, Italian schoolteacher Mauro Morandi was sailing between Corsica and Sardinia when the engine of his catamaran gave up....
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8 Tips To Get Maximum Profit Selling Your Overseas Property
We speak often about how to purchase real estate overseas, sharing hard-won wisdom and decades of experience to help you...
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11 Questions To Ask Before Buying Property Overseas
Certainly if you’re making a first-ever investment, but even if you’ve already made several real estate purchases overseas, how can...
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A Guide To The Best Real Estate Opportunities After COVID-19
What will global property markets look like post the COVID-19 pandemic? I do not believe we’re going to see 40%...
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Top 4 Global Investments To Suit Any Portfolio
When considering any potential investment, begin by asking yourself whether you are buying more for capital appreciation or for cash...
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9 Reasons Why It Makes Sense To Buy Real Estate Overseas
Why might it make sense for you to buy a piece of property overseas? The answers to that question are...
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Prime Location Panama Pre-Construction Condo Opportunity
We talked recently about the signs to look out for when identifying a market that's ripe for investment. One of...
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Find Out The Best Way To Hold Real Estate Overseas
How should one hold property overseas? That's a regular question at conferences... especially my Global Property Summit each year. The best...
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